List of Famous people who born in 1942

Thomas Del Ruth, A.S.C. is a retired American cinematographer.

Ulf Fink is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Herbert Gruber is an Austrian bobsledder who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won a silver medal in the four-man event at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble and finished eighth in the two-man event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.

Aleksei Nikolaevich Parshin, sometimes romanized as Alexey Nikolaevich Paršin, is a Russian mathematician, specializing in arithmetic geometry.

Howard Keith Henson is an American electrical engineer and writer. Henson writes on subjects including space engineering, space law, memetics, cryonics, evolutionary psychology, and the physical limitations of Transhumanism. In 1975, Henson founded the L5 Society with his then-wife Carolyn Meinel to promote space colonization. In 1987 the L5 Society merged with the National Space Institute to form the National Space Society.